investigated the gulf spill in 2010, a partisan, blue ribbon sort of commission. they concluded very emphatically that the industry has been underestimating the risks it takes every day in these kinds of waters. and they said the government also was so captured by industry that its regulations were patently, you know, inadequate. you describe it as a slothenly embrace, i think, between the regulated and the regulators in this case. steve coll, this is this is an encyclopedia work about a very big company, but also a about an institution that shapes the decisions that we think we are allowed to make that i think ends up being a total game changer in the ways we think about power in our country and in the world. this is great. thanks so much for being here. thank you. steve coll is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist, the new book is called private empire. up next, newt gingrich bids a farewell.
with the media in the way that many other corporations do. and, you know, to go back to this sort of idea about risk and regulation, whether the u.s. government can hold a corporation of that scale accountable, it s sort of a paradox, because on the one hand, a company like exxonmobil is very conservative about the way it operates in the gulf, because the deeper water horizon proves, you re betting the company every day you re out there. and if you blow up, you re going to pay a very high price. so there s a bias towards, well, let s be very careful, let s be very careful. but as your piece pointed out, the actual business drives them more and more into risk. so there s this constant tension every day. and to some extent, the regulators are incidental to that struggle. the corporation that investigated the gulf spill in 2010, a partisan, blue ribbon sort of commission. they concluded very emphatically that the industry has been underestimating the risks it takes every day in these kind
wants to assure the nation that they are now fully prepared for any future oil spill because they ve got lots and lots of boom and skimmers and chemical dispersants dropped by air. seriously. today on the second anniversary, the oil industry is crowing about how prepared they are if something this big ever happens again. in particular, the industry funded marine spill response corporation wants you to know they have 17 skimming vessels up from seven before the 2010 gulf spill. they now have 65,000 total feet of boom. they now have two dedicated aircraft for spraying chemical dispersants on the spill. it s the exact same stuff that
repeatedly, shelling, tank fire, nearly 100 civilians have reportedly been killed and now a russian official is in damascus to meet with the regime. we are going to figure out exactly how that will play out in the effort to end the carnage there. we have new information about final moments for josh powell and his two little boys. what the coroner says he did to his two little boys before he set the house on fire. and on the political front, a lot of delegates, up for grabs. 70, in fact, in the states that are actually offering them up. three states at play tonight. is rick santorum sitting a lot prettier than he has been in states past? we ll let you know. the dark side of camelot. this is an explosive new memoir. it claims that john f. kennedy had an affair with a teenage intern. he was in his 40s, she was 19. first up, we want to get to the situation in syria growing so desperate by the hour. take a look at the video and hear the sounds. it s remarkable. these are sce
faces. freedom. they are two foreign aid workers, one of them american, and they ve been held for three months by pirates in somalia. they are free. we ll tell you how and how the rescue went down. and did you watch the state of the union address? president obama s challenging republicans to get on board or get out of his way. he says preserving the american dream is the defining issue of our time. we have lots of highlights, lots of reaction. our panelists are going to weigh in. don t know if you re having a green apple for breakfast this morning, but i ll tell you what, the soon to be biggest technology firm in the world is feasting on green apples. apple just reporting historic profits. i know we say that sometimes, but wait until you hear how much that company made. it s probably known because we re contributing to it. ashleigh, did i tell you that plasma particles are hurdling toward us, how would you feel about that? i d say aurora borealis. and what if i to